This year on my summer vacation, I did lots of things. I gazed at this hunk of masculinity.
Pulled a Fussy at the beach with my hat.
Traveled like the Beverly Hillbillies.
Made an Apple turnover.
Didn't read these.
Made these.
I even redid this project. A few of you tasteful readers showed me your hutch and shelves where you used this harlequin pattern and I've been jealous ever since. Make yourself known in the comments you talented souls and feel free to leave a link to your posts about it. I've got your blogs bookmarked somewhere deep in that apple turnover so I cannot give you the credit you are due!
And I didn't even fret about all the seams and unmatching paper you can see when you look too closely. Hopefully the photos of my boys and old house will be captivating enough to hold the attention away from my inpatient installation of scrapbook paper. Oh, and yes, it's ok to get out your pumpkins now, it's August!
My Summer Vacation
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Is it ok to get out pumpkins? Awesome, I always waited till my birthday (Sep. 1) but now that I have you permission, I might get them out tomorrow ;) Cute hutch, cute tassles, cute kids, cute hubby - cute cute cute!
I'm number 1, yippee number 1, I can't believe I'm number 1! I'm first to leave a comment on the Nester's blog. Nana nana boo boo!
Anyhoo, welcome back Nester! I love that photo of the kids in the car. Where did you find time to re-do your hutch? It takes me weeks to recoup from vacation. :-)
Look at that wee little pumpkin in the hutch! Isn't that adorable?! So is your beach hat. So beachy and southern! Love it!
Oh, and, um, you can *somewhat* see out of the back window of the car (aka Bev. Hillbilly Mobile) so you're way ahead of me. Yeah, you have THREE kids to my ONE, and we had stuff strapped to the car. (Not the baby.)
Welcome back! :o)
Okay, that's what I get for taking so long to leave a comment. :-(
Hi,
I'm one of your new readers! I found you through another blog, and have been exploring your previous posts. You have some great ideas! Keep um coming!
diane
You are a Mac girl, now. Yay you! Congrats! Isn't it fabuloso?
Your fairy blogmother,
Darcy
Yeah... I'm so glad you're back from vacation!! Hope you had a wonderful time. Lookin' forward to reading new stuff now. Yipee!! I missed you, Nester.
Lovin' it. The hutch looks great especially with the white pumpkin! Everything really turned out beautiful, those tassels turned out amazing!!! Wowee kazowee!
Blessings, Debbie
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Looks like a fun family vacation. You seem to have been productive also. I love the tassels and the new paper looks great! I like the three shelves the same and the pattern and color! Super....and how great to easily change from the previous paper!
Love your vacation pics. I love your apple turnover. Too cute but I would really like to eat a real one right about now. Finally, I love your hutch. I am in a rental home and the owner won't allow us to paint anything other than the stark white she already has. Makes me crazy as I'm used to the beautiful custom colors from my own home in Vegas (currently rented out due to the horrible Vegas market). YUMMY and oh so cozy.
So anyway, I feel stuck. I have beautiful pottery from Poland and a set of Lennox Butler's Pantry dishes too but once I put them up they seem to fade into the UGLY white walls. GRRR!! For now, I live vicariously through you and your decorating. Keep it coming please! Someday I will be able to decorate my home again and I hope to use many of your ideas with my own twist.
I'm already eating pumpkin pie cobbler, so I guess getting out pumpkins is the next step :)!....
I LOVED that Beverly Hillbillies picture! and your new paper too!
oh Nester you're back...Yeah!!! I've missed you. Glad you had a great vacay.
I have that paper too, just haven't gotten it put up yet. It looks great in the hutch.
So glad you had a wonderful vacation! LOVE your the hat!
Looking forward to some great ideas!
Cant wait to get my pumpkins out!
Looks liek you had a great vacation!
Sounds like you had lots of fun! Love the new tassels - I saw them on etsy last night. And glad to hear I can get out my pumpkins! I've always waited until Labor Day, but I'm perfectly willing to get started in August!
Welcome home!
I can't wait to pull out the pumpkins; autumn is my favorite decorating season!
PS-Love your Mac laptops; I got one of the same about a year ago, and I love it ... but I'm sure there are still a lot of features that I don't even know how to use yet.
Love the pictures of your vacation! The one of the kids asleep in the car is super cute!
That hutch looks beautiful! It is inspiring me for when I get my new furniture in my new house!!
Apple turnover! lol
I'm so glad that you're back. It looks like you had a wonderful time!
Was my china cabinet one of the harlequin patterns you were referring to? If so (or even if not), here it is...
http://asoftplacetoland-kimba.blogspot.com/2008/08/one-hutch-at-time.html
881 emails? You need to just delete them all and start over.
Wish we had gone with you on vacation!
Oh! And I meant to say that I love yours so much with the harlequin on all the shelves. I'm racing out to the craft store to get more of that paper and change mine to all harlequin.
Harlequin
Harlequin
Harlequin
If you say it over and over, it loses all meaning. :-)
Welcome home! Praying for alot of rest and comfort now that you are home, vacations so wear us out!
hugs
Shan
i read regularly, but have never commented. however, i feel so strongly about one of your vacation points that i have to comment!!!
you are going to LOVE your macbook. i made the switch about a year ago and it has changed my life (technology speaking, of course).
love that little macbook like it is your 4th child! :)
I love pumpkins. Fall is by far my favorite season. Thanks for the permission to use them; I always try to wait until Sept. 1st. Quick question...where did you get all the beautiful white pieces in your hutch? They are so neat!
Beverly Hillbillies! Too funny! Loving the tassels and your hutch redo...sweet!
Nooooo! There is now way I'm letting go of the summer without a fight!!! lol Pumpkins mean fall, and I am sooooo not willing to admit that it is just around the corner.
Y'all have fun with your pumpkins, you won't see any at my house until at LEAST Sept.1
Welcome back! Your hutch looks gorgeous with that new paper! I did that same project this weekend with a shelf in my daughter's room. Scrapbook paper is amazing. lol
Love your hutch and cute little pumpkin! I wasn't sure what etiquette said about when to bring out the pumpkins...now I know :-)
Your tassels are so cute! Have a great Monday!
Kim
Welcome back from vacation....I LOVE the photo of your family with you in the hat....looks so southern.
The hutch looks wonderful with that paper.
Thats a GREAT picture of your man!! I LOVE the one on the beach. Was that planned or just a spur of the moment? Cabinet looks great (of course), love all your tassles (of course) and SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad your are BACK!!!! Am I dramatic enough for you? lol
Glad you're back. I've been waiting on the next bit of nester-inspiration. I haven't started a good project in at least... oh, say 6 hours or so! Love the new tassels, btw. Along with the cool 50 degree weather we had last night, I might be ready for fall!
Julie
I am sure your honey loves 1000's of women oogling his hunk of masculinity...hee hee. Lots of welcome home love. You'd be proud of our cabinet redo but we did the whole thing...did I leave out the part where I made my sis do it first since I was chicken on my hutch.:)
http://inpassionatepursuit.blogspot.com/2008/08/mom-of-10s-so-easy-cabinet-redo.html
I want one of those fall tassels. K?
Save one for me.
Or I will cry.
Love the hutch! Welcome back, your boys look familiar in the van to our last vacation. Packed to the gills!
THANK YOU FOR COMING BACK!! we missed you :)
Yeah that's me -- i think it would be fun to wrap christmas presents for people (and for money) :) and who doesn't LOVE a beautifully wrapped box??
Yeah that's me -- i think it would be fun to wrap christmas presents for people (and for money) :) and who doesn't LOVE a beautifully wrapped box??
Yea, the nester is back! I was begining to feel woozy when I could not check her blog daily.....tahnks again for the wonderful tassels! i am going to try and post some pictures soon. I also worked on a mistreatment while you were away. Glad you had a great time.
Thought it was high time I left you a comment (I found you ages ago from a post on Ohdeedoh about your cute reading nook) I LOVE your ideas! You're so talented! I love autumn too...looking forward to breaking out the pumpkins myself!!!
Love the new pattern! Looks like you had a relaxing but productive vacation...we're glad you're back!
Looks like you had a great vacation! Loved the photo in your van--glad to know ours isn't the only one that looks like that when we travel.
We're all glad to have you back. Congrats on your purty new Mac!! -Julia :-)
I am dying to turn my son's old armoire into a hutch like yours for my dining room! The problem is it's Pottery Barn honey and I want it antique and old looking black. How do I do that? Anyone have any tips? Cute pumpkins!
I'm glad your trip went well and you were missed. Thanks for the heads up on pumpkin timing.... I love fall and everything that goes with it. Those tassels are darling!!!
P.S. Nester, what do you think of Svelty Sage for my Kitchen cabinet redo? I have been looking at sages and I'm leaning that way.
Looks like a grand time was had by all. And you have more apples than I have in my kitchen! :) I'm glad you had a great time. Welcome home!
Love the post, love the tassles, love the hutch, love the hat girl!
Glad you are back!
Many Blessings :)
Ace
What a wonderful vacation. I'm going to get some good looks at my hunk of burning love in a few weeks. I might even try my hand at a tassel.
I just recently found your blog and LOVE it. Happy you had a great vacation . . . . don't worry, we all travel like the Beverly Hillbillies :-)
Yea! Welcome back!
You're gonna love your Mac Book...it was the best XMAS gift I got this year. I love it!!
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Hi! I love the harlequin pattern in the hutch! Maybe I should try it...And also, good news about the pumpkins! Fall is just around the corner, yay!
I am really enjoying your blog!
-Carrie
Yay. Pumpkins!
Glad you're back.
We just became a Mac family last week and we love it. Aren't they so pretty?
Looks awesome as usual.
I'm glad that you had a good time on vacation and I love the photos of your family. The hutch redo is great! I finally made of few mistreatments, if you get a chance check them out.
Take care
Michelle
no one actually thinks that I purchased 3 new computers , went on a week long luxury vacation and just got a new car-- do you?
Oh, if you are in need of a new mac and homeschool, you qualify for the education discount {$100 off} and can do the ipod/printer rebate {$399} and then sell them on craigslist for almost as much! That's a great deal right now on a computer! $500 in rebate/discount plus whatever you can sell the printer and new ipod for!
If you are wondering about our big nice vehicle, we bought it when my husband was making the big bucks and it will be paid off in a few months! Counting down the days! Dave said to keep it. But oh how the gas hurts!
Our vacation was at a family beach house from Saturday to Tuesday so my hard working husband could work on Wednesday. Thanks in laws for a paid for vacation every year! We are so blessed!
I love you all especially you BBC people!! Feel free to ask me any questions--we sure have made stupid mistakes and try hard to learn from them! I'll be the first to admit we are not perfect!
Thanks for reading!
Rock on Nester, you don't need to defend yourself.
I think it's a summer that you can say you certainly did alot.Apple turnover. Ha. I love the tassels! Jen R
Sounds like a great week! I love the hutch makeover and the new tassels. I live in the mountains and I can't wait for the leaves to start turning - my favorite time of year.
I got to go to the Southern Living Idea Home outside of Asheville, NC this past weekend and I have to say, they are ripping you off! :) The kids room was really "mistreated"! I mean, when Southern Living says it's cool, you know you are a real trendsetter!
So glad you had a great family vacation!
I can't WAIT for fall and Halloween! It's my favorite time of year ( especially since in central TX, it's when you can acutally breath outside ) and always get excited when the stores put out all the garb.
Pining for a tassel, saving my pennies now!
I am sorry you had to defend yourself.
Oh, thank goodness--I've been burning pumpkin-scented candles for a month!! :) Too bad it's still 100-plus degrees here!!
So you and your family look like a dadgum magazine ad!! SO cute!! Looks like a great trip! I love it that you made tassles while you were gone--aren't women so all about multi-tasking?? Hilarious!!
Love the hutch, too!!
Looks great! And the pumpkins are such a popular discussion right now!!
nester, you rock.
my mom is taking me and the kids to the beach next month - free vacations are freaking awesome. people who nitpick others' lives and make ASSumptions - not so much.
Oh, Nester, how I do love thee. I also love the big floppy straw hat when I go to the beach.
We're not going this year and I'm so sad not to see the ocean. :(
Hope you had fun! Love the hutch.
Hi Nester :)
Your whole family is adorable. Glad you had fun :)
You just inspired me to do the same thing with my scrap paper that's been waiting for me to finally use it. I think I'll post about it tomorrow.
Pumpkins?? I don't know if hubby Rich can handle that yet, but I know I can ;)
rue
Pumpkins already? Really? Hmmm...we just got into summer here....do I dare start that?
oh nester! you had my kind of vacation: you got LOTS OF THINGS DONE-> i love a vacation that gets lots of things done, and goes places, and hangs with hunks. did you eat some ice cream? i might have. anyway, glad you are back and that the car is almost paid for. we have 6 more payments! oooh yeah! and it's still serious summer here in so. california so no pumpkins are in sight. i'll let you know when one appears! jkj
looks like an amazing vacation! so glad you purchased a mac..we have 2 and love them! hope you had a relaxing trip...love all the wonderful, new tassles!
:)
amy bell
ok, one last question...do you have a place where you share you whole story about the financial peace thing? we are trying so hard...we need some pointers!
:)
Okay, don't hit me, but I've never liked hutches. UNTIL NOW! After seeing yours, I may just have to come up with one myself. Hmmm...
PUMPKINS!!! YAY PUMPKINS!!! I was ready to decorate last week after walking through Cracker Barrel. Ready for Christmas too. Well, not really, but ready to decorate at least. Fun lies ahead!
Looks like a perfect vacation....love the new tassels....
LOVE IT!!! And Oh My Gosh! All of those emails! I wouldnt want to read them either! hehe
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Did you vacation near Ocean Lakes in Myrtle Beach? The background looks very familiar and that's where I vacation every year!! Love the chair btw :)
Everyone always thinks Im crazy for putting my pumpkins out so early, thatnks to you we will be decorating for fall today!!THANK YOU!!!!
I'm so glad I can always learn something new here--before you called your new hutch paper (NOT applied with double-sided tape of course) harlequin, I thought it was argyle. Even though argyle looks slightly different. How embarrassing.
I like it--it looks so edgy. Hopefully your plates don't feel edgy and try to jump and ruin the whole arrangement.
Apparently, too, I've been ignorant about how early to dig out the pumpkins--Watch out neighborhood, I'm about to start a new trend! (Our neighborhood is full of old people, so I'm the edgy one here.)
Girl you are an aboslute GEM and inspiration! Gotta say love the hat... but in the words of Meg Ryan on butterflies, hats, subways and Bloomingdales... truly are hats a mistake? I contest the notion! You look delovely! Especially next to that fine specimen of a hub (I mean that in the nicest respect). I am enjoying my pumpkins as well... might I ask where you got that specific harlequin pattern... I do {heart} that pattern... looking forward to our mistreatments as well!!
Aja
such a creative and fun post! I'm a mac girl too as of late. I am having a fall wedding just because I love pumpkins and that fall feeling in the air so much! Kelly
Yay!! I did it too. Don't worry I gave credit where credit is due:
http://nikki-savingforarainyday.blogspot.com/2008/08/inspired-project.html
I love your blog. I try to visit every day!
Love your summer hat! Looks like summer vacation was very fun. Like the cute tassles(Love the one you made for me)!
I lke the hutch and it is so functional. Hey summer is not quite over for us yet. We still have our trip to visit family in CA. I can't wait to go to the beach, see friends and family.
Jody
Oh, I love the new paper in your hutch! It's gorgeous!
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YEAH!!! your back. Welcome back kotter!
love the new hutch look.
Love your Beach Hat..... You have a beautiful family.... Enjoyed your blog
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